Flowers

I visited one of my favorite foraging spots in Rome today. I discovered it through a friend who generously shared her foraging knowledge with me. She did so when I told her how much I love flowers and that I was trying to gravitate towards using more seasonal, local varieties in my arrangements.* When ...

I made this arrangement with the season very much in mind. It felt like a good day to celebrate the palette we see during the shift from Spring to Summer. It’s early June which means that all of the green we see emerge from the ground in the month or two prior, suddenly comes even ...

As much as I enjoy the change of seasons, sometimes I wouldn’t mind if Winter were a little shorter. That’s why I decided to go through some old photos and take a break from the Winter with this summertime palette. I gathered these flowers this past Summer while back in the U.S. visiting my father. ...

Block Island is a small island about thirteen miles off the coast of Rhode Island. It’s covered in wildflowers and plants that festoon the island with a variety of colors as the seasons change. Summer begins with bushes of wild pink roses and ends with the dark jewel tones of blackberries. Then a golden, glowing ...

Growing up, the Fall was always a time for oranges, yellows and reds. Lately though, while contemplating flower combinations, I’ve been noticing that it’s also a time for deeper hues and a lot of interesting textures. A variety of purples and deep greens start to appear which can suggest the coming of Winter in a ...

The other day I had the immense pleasure of meeting Brittany Asch of Brrch. She is as lovely as her floral compositions and she kindly left me with some leftover roses from a recent job. A delivery from a flower fairy, if you will. There was some old floral foam laying around so I decided ...

Prague is the city of Golem and Kafka. A place filled with dark, winding side streets, ancient cemeteries and gothic spires. I’ve been going there since I can remember but the place still retains an air of mystery and an enchanting gloom. It is also, however, a city of vibrant art and culture, where stunning ...

This photo is from another photoshoot during which we focused on poppies. Poppies are always beautiful in a bouquet but they’re so stunning that they can make more of an impact on their own. There’s never a day I see them at the market that I don’t immediately start thinking of how to incorporate them ...

I captured this still-life of anemones during a recent photoshoot because I loved the way the sunlight was streaming in onto them. Anemones are one of my favorite flowers. There’s something poetic about the contrast created by the flower’s dark, almost graphic center that is simple but always really striking. It’s especially so when considered ...